For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

Those very early generations of Population III stars were nothing like stars like our sun, as the conditions of the universe were totally different at the time of their births billions of years ago.

New measurements from some of the most distant galaxies bolster the evidence that the strongest burst of star formation in the history of the Universe occurred about two billion years after the ...

These nurseries contain high concentrations of gas and dust and are also called molecular clouds. A study now provides evidence that some stars may have been born from some fluffy versions of these ...

A new study that suggests the first stars in the universe formed in groups instead of in isolation, as previously thought, also has found something else: Some of these first stars may still be ...

Another indication of the stars’ early birth is their tight orbits around the center of the Milky Way. At least 14 of the low-metal stars identified orbit within the Milky Way’s central bulge.

The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it’s ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. The star, nicknamed Eardenel, could be between 50 to 500 times ...

The desire for a realistic view of the stars and planets, created from a perspective we actually see, gathered pace in the early 20th century as light pollution from growing cities diminished the ...

The World’s Oldest Map of the Stars, Lost for Thousands of Years, Has Been Found in the Pages of a Medieval Parchment The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus catalogued the coordinates of the stars.